Large language models (LLMs) now routinely draft literature reviews and assist with academic writing, which means a higher risk of fabricated references: GPTZero found 53 papers with hallucinated citations among NeurIPS 2025's accepted set. Rule- and LLM-based verifiers are emerg…
Looped Transformers, which repeatedly apply a shared transformer block, are an architecturally natural fit for variable-length algorithmic tasks. Although they can exhibit strong length generalization beyond the length of training sequences, this behavior is brittle, yielding hig…